Verboticisms

Created by: vonnegut

Pronunciation: sin-wat

Sentence: "As your husband, I'll want all your love for myself." She stared at me with widening eyes. "A sin-wat!"... "I will not marry a sin-wat." She stood. "Goodbye." "Good-bye?" I was crushed.

Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for Cat's Cradle, published in 1963.

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Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: glove/ur/ness

Sentence: A gloverness takes charge of a relationship and never lets it out of her sight.

Etymology: governess + love

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Created by: lauramy

Pronunciation: deer-uh-nee

Sentence: When she hired a spy to watch my every move, I knew her love had become an unbearable dearanny.

Etymology: dear + tyranny

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: rayn - deer

Sentence: Elizabeth is a veritable reindear, keeping her fiancé, Duke, on a very short leash, seldom letting him out of her sight and dominating most of his time thereby making sure that other women were kept at bay.

Etymology: Blend of rein (means of controlling) and dear

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COMMENTS:

like it - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-24: 16:13:00

Love it...is she also a care-ibou? You sleigh me! - Nosila, 2008-06-24: 20:25:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: dik - taa - ta - mor - a

Sentence: Sean had become a dictatamore and Sarah was feeling stiffled, stiffened and smothered. He was jealous of her dog, her mother and even her stuffed animals.

Etymology: dicatate, amore

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COMMENTS:

Ha! good word! - splendiction, 2009-11-03: 21:13:00

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Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: val/en/mine

Sentence: When he caught her deleting all of his contacts on his cell phone, Dick realised with trepidation that perhaps Julie was a valenmine.

Etymology: Valentine (your beloved one) + mine (all mine, not yours, can't have him, he's mine!)

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COMMENTS:

is that where the seven cupids work? - galwaywegian, 2007-04-17: 07:12:00

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Created by: mana1066

Pronunciation: flir-teck-ler

Sentence: because of her bad attitude towards love and hooking up in general, she was an annoying fliteckler to everyone around her

Etymology: flirt + heckler

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Created by: javex

Pronunciation: Uh-ten-shun-eer

Sentence: Look, I'd love to stay and talk with you, but my attentioneer of a wife is running over here, and she doesn't really look too happy...

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

Bleachy keen, Javex! - Nosila, 2009-11-03: 23:44:00

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: MUG-wub

Sentence: When Clarence scolded her for kissing her brother, Serena knew he was a mugwuv, and told him to take a hike.

Etymology: mug-to steal, wuv, mugwump

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: eee ross punj

Sentence: She was a complete erosponge, mopping up all the juices he could produce.

Etymology: eros, sponge

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COMMENTS:

Clever! - jedijawa, 2007-04-17: 10:12:00

Clever! - jedijawa, 2007-04-17: 18:53:00

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